problem: buckwheat with hulls

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Hi everyone - I'm having a problem. I ordered a 25 lb. bag of

buckwheat from my health food store, assuming it would be dehulled

buckwheat. It turns out it's not.

I remember finding instructions on the web on how to make a home

dehuller, which was pretty much all the information I could find on

the subject. It involved putting a rubber sheet in a grain mill and

separating the components to allow the buckwheat groats to get their

hulls cracked without being entirely crushed. After reading and

pondering the instructions for a while, I decided that would not work,

and I doubt the person who wrote those instructions had built the

apparatus and had success with it. Even if it worked, there's the

step of winnowing off the hulls, which may be unavoidable.

I even tried my own experiment with a piece of silicone (a torn-up

baking sheet), using a rolling pin to crush the hull and hopefully

leave the buckwheat groat intact. This didn't work very well. It

took a lot of labor to get a few hulls cracked, and half the time, I

ended up crushing the groat.

Can anyone help me find a way to dehull my buckwheat without buying

some expensive industrial machine?